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Arts and Public Life Breakfast 'What business can learn from show business.'

Arts and Public Life Breakfast 'What business can learn from show business.'

Jonathan Biggins
WHAT BUSINESS CAN LEARN FROM SHOWBUSINESS
You need a special skill to succeed in a career like Jonathan Biggins’—as actor, writer, opera director and satirist, team leader of the admired Wharf Revue. To pillory the nation, its politics and public life, you need keen observation, a curious mind and mental courage. In a seriously entertaining speech Jonathan will call on his fellow artists to end the furphy that art is averse to profit and
open the funding system to commercial opportunity. For many, he says, the traditional theatre company is the ideal business model.